"Fair enough, but a short article like this should be passed onto lower writers and only proofed by you and Ian and Anand."

It's not just about doing a short summary, you have to do research, commentary, as well as ask follow-up stuff from the hardware reps. Just doing short summaries of what was said is easy, that's what most tech sites are for.

I like AnandTech's spin on things. I'd rather have considered and careful analysis everywhere, even if it means some of the articles aren't up as fast as they could be. This information won't self-destruct within 10 seconds of being given out to the press.Reply

So, I was wondering if anyone more tech savvy than me could answer a question. The Jetson TK1 dev kit apparently runs Linux 4 Tegra (L4T). Since it is an ARM processor, would it be possible to get Android on there? Or will Nvidia support that? What about Ubuntu? If it was possible to run Steam on this, would it work for Steam In-Home streaming? Reply

You might be able to run Android on there eventually, as soon as all the drivers are available. I think L4T is a spin of Ubuntu so that could be possible too; again, drivers permitting. There's no port of Steam to ARM yet, so that won't run.Reply

Because with an mxm slot you can theoretically pair in something like an 860m maxwell gpu in with dedicated vram which would slap around any mobile soc while having the system running lower efficient arm cores.Reply

good luck finding 860m drivers for ARM. This is the rich boy's raspberry pi. i cant wait to see what people do with this. I'm glad to see it's shipping soon. this really highlights how bad channel backlog is when everyone else is 1 year away from shipping x64 arm cores and nvidia is shipping now along with appleReply

TSMCs 28 nm process has proved to be one of the most productive and competetive in semiconductor history. It is far from certain that future shrinks will improve a lot on this node. The days where shrink lead to automatic gains in performance, cost and low power might be at an end.Reply

I think that just means that we'll see higher gains from the "tock" part of the tick-tock sequence at Intel. Tick, where the die shrink happens, may not have huge gains, but the optimization of a smaller process should always end up better than the optimized version of the previous process.

And if not, we can just fit more cache on the same size die. :-)

I'm considering one of these boards for an HTPC. I realize it's intended for developers (which I am actually), but if it can run Plex for Android I'd hook it to my HDTV. It should also be great for games, at the least the ones that will work with a gamepad.

As dragonsqrrl said, Intel projects 14nm will arrive 2015 at the earliest. But, you are right its frustrating. I bet 20nm will be very short lived considering 16nm FinFet should arrive in 2015 to compete with Intel. Reply